President Donald Trump is championing the decision by First Lady Melania Trump to sue Hunter Biden for his claim that disgraced billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein first introduced them to each other.

‘I told her, let’s go ahead and do it. I let her use my lawyers,’ Trump revealed to Fox News radio host Brian Kilmeade in an interview on Thursday. ‘She was very upset about it.’ The first lady revealed Wednesday that she would sue Hunter for $1 billion after he refused to apologize and take down a podcast video where he made the false claim that Melania Trump was introduced to the president by Epstein .

Trump repeated that the claim was false and easily disproven. ‘Jeffrey Epstein had nothing to do with Melania and introducing,’ he said, criticizing Hunter and other media outlets that aired the claim. ‘But they do that to demean, they make up stories … I mean, I can tell you exactly how … it was another person, actually. I did meet through another person. But it wasn’t Jeffrey Epstein.’

The president pointed to his success in getting media outlets to back down in response to lawsuits, which prompted his endorsement of the lawsuit. ‘I said go forward, you know, I’ve done pretty well on these lawsuits lately,’ Trump said.

In an interview with the Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan podcast, Biden cited a Daily Beast report for his claim about the first lady sourced to author Michael Wolff. The first lady’s lawyer Alejandro Brito called Hunter Biden’s comments ‘false, defamatory, and lewd.’

‘Given your vast history of trading on the names of others-including your surname-for your personal benefit, it is obvious that you published these false and defamatory statements about Mrs. Trump to draw attention to yourself,’ Brito wrote in a letter, first obtained by Fox News Digital.

After Mrs. Trump threatened legal action, Hunter shared his public reaction on Callaghan’s show. ‘[expletive] that. That’s not going to happen,’ Biden replied, after Callaghan showed him a copy of the letter.

Hunter defended his comments, citing reporting from Wolff’s book, and a 2019 story from the New York Times that reported Epstein was ‘claiming to people that he was the one who introduced Mr. Trump to his third wife, Melania Trump.’

Other media outlets backed down from the false claim, including the Daily Beast, which retracted the story and apologized. Political operative James Carville also deleted a podcast video where he made the claim and apologized.

Hunter defied the lawsuit threat and vowed to take the Trumps to court, even as he estimated the lawsuit would probably cost ‘millions’ of dollars. ‘If they want to go through the process, then they know it’s going to cost them an enormous amount of money to do it,’ he said. ‘We gotta figure out how we’re going to pay for it.’